I read his article as well. It hasn't slowed my commenting down at all, but then again I'm not fishing for comment votes either. I really enjoy the interactions and social aspect of the platform I can see how it would affect a certain number of others though.

I absolutely understand about vacationing and Steemit. It was darn near impossible just to get a few posts in and stayed in country. I can only imagine the difficulties when traveling abroad.

I'll definitely take you up on the cheese plate, but i prefer retiring to the range and discussing grips and sight alignment! Lol